Andreas Mietzsch

Andreas Mietzsch (born August 30, 1957 in Berlin ) is a German journalist , author and entrepreneur .

Life

Andreas Mietzsch studied biology in Braunschweig as well as journalism and communication studies in Göttingen. In 1985, while still a student, he published a parody of a science textbook. This “Little Zoology of the True King of Animals” was based on the fictional comic book Marsupilami by the Belgian draftsman André Franquin and, with five editions, is Mietzsch's most successful book to date. In the same year he tried for the first time a synthesis between natural and communication science models of thought with his diploma thesis entitled “The transfer of sociobiological theses to television behavior”, which was realized with the support of ZDF and Infas - an approach that was very much his shaped further career.

In 1986 Andreas Mietzsch founded today's BIOCOM AG in Braunschweig , a specialist information company for life sciences. Today he is a board member and still majority shareholder of the company, which has had its headquarters in Berlin since 1991 and has additional offices in Brussels, Vienna and Zurich.

Mietzsch was editor-in-chief of various specialist journals, including BioEngineering, BIOspektrum, | transkript and European Biotechnology - he is now editor of the latter two. Several series of specialist books were initiated and published by him, for example the “Biopolitics Course Book” or the “BioTechnology Yearbook”, which has been published annually since 1987.

In 2004 Mietzsch was one of the founders of BIO Germany (Biotechnology Industry Organization Germany eV), of which he was a member of the board for four years. Since 2008 he has been honorary president of the non-profit "European Biotechnology Network" based in Brussels.

His other entrepreneurial activities include ZENTRALVERLAG, which specializes in art and the history of architecture and is based in Berlin, of which Mietzsch is the owner and manager. In this area he is also active as a journalist, for example as co-author and photographer of the book "Bronzeguss - Handwerk für die Kunst". His specialties are figurative sculpture and monumental architecture from the first half of the 20th century.

Publications (selection)

• BioTechnology Yearbook 2019. BIOCOM Verlag, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3-928383-72-1 .
• With Susanne Kähler : Paul Egon Schiffers - sculptors in the 20th century. Zentralverlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-9812417-4-7 .
• Course book Biopolitics Vol. 4. BIOCOM Verlag, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-928383-34-9 .
• Bronze casting - handicraft for art. ZENTRALVERLAG, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-9812417-0-9 .
• Huba Huba - The Marsupilami Book, Small Zoology of the True King of Animals. comicplus + Verlag, Hamburg 1985, ISBN 978-3-924623-02-9 .

Web links

• archiv.biotechnologietage-2010.de
• european-biotechnology.net/